Milky Way above Joshua Tree National Park

Earth and Moon from 114 million miles away

In the lower left portion of this image, the Earth can be seen, as well as the much smaller Moon to Earth’s right. When MESSENGER took this image, a distance of 183 million kilometers (114 million miles) separated the spacecraft and Earth. To provide context for this distance, the average separation between the Earth and the Sun is about 150 million kilometers (93 million miles).

Via Messenger, NASA

First human in space

NASA Earth Image of the Day

NASA Earth Image of the Day

Google launches interactive 3D Moon

See it for yourself via Google Earth